From: Tom Sullivan <starkfist@h...>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 07:56:44 PDT
Subject: Wacky Idea #217
A few years ago, a guy that I knew decided to start painting figures. Not, I might add, for any particular reasonhe just thought that they looked neat. He was depressingly good at it, producing figures that were, at least in my opinion, of display quality right off the bat. One of the figures that he painted up was an old GW Eldar Titan; a silly looking figure, but he did a damned good job with it. What made the titan look particularly good was what can only be described as a "glitter" effect on the shoulder pads and portions of the head. He achieved this effect by using a very fine glitter, which he had obtained from a store that sold supplies for womens nails. Apparently, he was stuck there while his wife was getting a manicure or something.... Anyway, the point (yes, there is one) is this: I got a bit of this stuff from him after I first saw his titan, and I was recently considering the idea of using it on some of my Dirtside tanks, as a sort of laser reflective coatinga variant of the ablative coating listed in the DSII rulebook. Additionally, it might serve to give the tank a really screwy radar signature, something that might screw up incoming missiles (which is to say, I would give it a high ECM). Plus, and most importantly, it would look cool. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Or ideas on which figures this would be most appropriate for? Im thinking of something with relatively large, flat sides, the better to apply the glitter (or, as I am now being told, embossing powder) to. And yes, it would completely negate any form of cammo on the tank, but to that I say: so what. In my games, the enemy's sensors are gonna find you anyway, no matter how good your cammo is. And, like I said, that Eldar Titan looked damned good.